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High-roller Matthew D. fears Finance. "This is from our corporate expense system. Will they flag my expenses in the April-December quarter as too high? And do we really need a search function for a list of 12 items?"
Nina's team has a new developer on the team. They're not a junior developer, though Nina wishes they could replace this developer with a junior. Inexperience is better than whatever this Java code is.
Object[] test = (Object[]) options;
List<SchedulePlatform> schedulePlatformList = (List<SchedulePlatform>)((Object[])options)[0];
List<TableColumn> visibleTableCols = (List<TableColumn>)((Object[])options)[1];
Many nations have some form of national identification number, especially around taxes. Argentina is no exception.
Their "CUIT" (Clave Única de Identificación Tributaria) and "CUIL" (Código Único de Identificación Laboral) are formatted as "##-########-#".
Our anonymous submitter, whom we'll call Craig, worked for GlobalCon. GlobalCon relied on an offshore team on the other side of the world for adding/removing users from the system, support calls, ticket tracking, and other client services. One day at work, an urgent escalated ticket from Martin, the offshore support team lead, fell into Craig's queue. Seated before his cubicle workstation, Craig opened the ticket right away:
It's a holiday in the US today, so we're taking a long weekend. We flip back to a classic story of a company wanting to fill 15 different positions by hiring only one person. It's okay, Martin handles the database. Original - Remy
A curious email arrived in Phil's Inbox. "Windows Support Engineer required. Must have experience of the following:" and then a long list of Microsoft products.
Phil frowned. The location was convenient; the salary was fine, just the list of software seemed somewhat intimidating. Nevertheless, he replied to the agency saying that he was interested in applying for the position.
Underqualified Mike S. is suffering a job hunt. "I could handle uD83D and uDC77 well enough, but I am a little short of uD83C and the all important uDFFE requirement."
Mark sends us a very simple Java function which has the job of parsing an integer from a string. Now, you might say, "But Java has a built in for that, Integer.parseInt," and have I got good news for you: they actually used it. It's just everything else they did wrong.
private int makeInteger(String s)
{
int i=0;
try
{
Integer.parseInt(s);
}
catch (NumberFormatException e)
{
i=0;
return i;
}
i=Integer.parseInt(s);
return i;
}
Frank inherited some code that reads URLs from a file, and puts them into a collection. This is a delightfully simple task. What could go wrong?
static String[] readFile(String filename) {
String record = null;
Vector vURLs = new Vector();
int recCnt = 0;
try {
FileReader fr = new FileReader(filename);
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(fr);
record = new String();
while ((record = br.readLine()) != null) {
vURLs.add(new String(record));
//System.out.println(recCnt + ": " + vURLs.get(recCnt));
recCnt++;
}
} catch (IOException e) {
// catch possible io errors from readLine()
System.out.println("IOException error reading " + filename + " in readURLs()!\n");
e.printStackTrace();
}
System.out.println("Reading URLs ...\n");
int arrCnt = 0;
String[] sURLs = new String[vURLs.size()];
Enumeration eURLs = vURLs.elements();
for (Enumeration e = vURLs.elements() ; e.hasMoreElements() ;) {
sURLs[arrCnt] = (String)e.nextElement();
System.out.println(arrCnt + ": " + sURLs[arrCnt]);
arrCnt++;
}
if (recCnt != arrCnt++) {
System.out.println("WARNING: The number of URLs in the input file does not match the number of URLs in the array!\n\n");
}
return sURLs;
} // end of readFile()